cimorene

I've always loved this book pretty unreservedly. It's what a breathless blurb might call a tour-de-force. I'm a big fan of its genre and its subgenre and a lot of individual things about it as well as of the writer and the subject matter. Modern fantasies based on mythologies are my favourite books, and even though the Greco-Roman pantheons are my childhood favourites, and I think the most fascinating are the Sumerian and Babylonian, the Norse ones are my favourites for purposes of modern fantasy. Yes, even above the fae. This book doesn't have the same place in my heart as Eight Days of Luke by Diana Wynne Jones, maybe because it's less light-hearted and maybe less archetypal. But it's more complicated and adult as well, with endless lovable and intriguing nuances to Odin and Loki, who are endlessly fascinating in themselves, anyway. I want slash about them from this book in particular more now, not less. (In EDOL it's obviously David/Luke, and Odin is more fatherly - or maybe grandfatherly - to both.)